Wednesday, February 27, 2008

The Leftover Queen hosts a Royal Foodie Joust every month on her Forum. Each month three ingredients are picked & foodies everywhere create there best recipe using those ingredients. This month we had to use Pork, Citrus & Pink Peppercorns.

This is our first Joust & we wanted to challenge ourselves. We've been interested in making homemade sausage links lately so this seemed like a good time to go for it. We like sausage with fruits such as mango & apple so why not a citrus. Then we thought Asian flavors would go well with citrus & pork so we decided to use Chinese Five Spice Powder. The citrus we chose was Honey Tangerine, the honey flavor works so well with the Asian spices & the firm texture made it easy to supreme.

We use the meat grinder & sausage filler attachments for our Kitchen Aid to make this sausage.

Grind peppercorns. Mix peppercorn, five spice powder & salt together. Coat meat with spices. Put meat through the meat grinder with the small blade attached. Supreme the tangerines & cut them into small pieces. Mix the tangerine into the ground meat. Attach the sausage filler attachment to the mixer. Grease the filler with butter or shortening. If using natural casing, rinse it well. Slide about 7 feet of casingonto the filler, tying a knot at the end. Fill casing with meat & tangerine mixture.Twist filled casing into 6-inch (or size of your choice) links & cut the links apart. Makes about 12 links.